DJ.1. Introduction

Entities that wish to start participating in a distributed a system of Jini technology-enabled services and/or devices, known as a djinn, must first obtain references to one or more Jini lookup services. The protocols that govern the acquisition of these references are known as the discovery protocols. Once these references have been obtained, a number of steps must be taken for entities to start communicating usefully with services in a djinn; these steps are described by the join protocol.

DJ.1.1. Terminology

A host is a single hardware device that may be connected to one or more networks. An individual host may house one or more Java virtual machines [1] (JVM).

[1] *As used in this document, the terms “Java virtual machine” ...

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